Op vrijdag 12-03-2010 om 13:31 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Calum Benson: > > For me, it is a *huge* usability feature to be able to scroll through > > notebook tabs. I use this all the time when using Firefox, Nautilus, > > gedit and other applications with lots of documents opened in tabs. I > > love it. > > So as the only person who's really claimed to use this feature so far: > why do you use it? What is your use case for scrolling through tabs? > In most cases, people can see which tab they need to visit, so it is > much quicker for them to click that tab directly.
I use the scroll wheel to flip through tabs pretty often as well. For me, one of the advantages is that I don't have to stretch my wrist as much when I only have to move the mouse pointer vertically somewhere inside the tab row and use the scroll wheel, as opposed to moving it to a specific tab. On a more abstract level, in a way I can't really explain it feels natural to me to be able to "rifle" through tabs as I would do with pages in a book. I can keep my eyes focused on the content while flipping through open tabs. regards, -- Reinout van Schouwen _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
